Danielle Canstello is a party of the content marketing team at Pyramid Analytics. They provide enterprise-level analytics and cloud BI software. In her spare time, she writes around the web to spread her knowledge of marketing, business intelligence, and analytics industries.

With any of your marketing efforts, you want to be sure you’re getting a positive return on investment (ROI). This is especially true when you’re paying for advertising.

With a pay-per-click (PPC) campaign, it can seem difficult and overwhelming to determine if your investment of time and money is paying off. So, let’s look at various ways you can track and measure the efficiency of your PPC investments.

The Basics

Just to get on the same page, let’s define PPC. This is a form of Internet marketing in which you pay a fee each time your advertisement is clicked on by a user. Basically, you’re paying to get visitors to your site, rather than having them arrive via an organic search.One of the most popular forms of PPC is search engine advertising. This lets you bid for ad placement in a sponsored link when a search includes one of the keywords related to what your business is selling.

For instance, if you have an online clothing store, and someone searches “women’s cotton pants,” your business advertisement appears in the search engine results.

Bala interviews Rodger Johnson, the founder of SociallyRelevant.us. Rodger is a social media consultant & a communications strategist. He is currently pursuing his Doctorate on this subject.

Rodger has moved from various lines of work to choose the field he loves now. He shares his story on how he started out and what he has learnt from this field of work. From various tips on how to run a Social Media Command center, to the important metrics that need to be measured in social media marketing, are shared in this interesting conversation.